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Klingenstein Philanthropies @klingensteinorg.bsky.social · 2d

Applications are open for the Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience, supporting early-career investigators engaged in basic or clinical research that may lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Learn more: klingenstein.org/esther-a-jos...

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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 7d

really fun getting to think about the "time to consciousness" with this dream team! we discuss interesting parallels between vision and language processing on phenomena like postdictive perceptual effects, among other things! check it out 😄

Will Turner @renrutmailliw.bsky.social · 9d

New BBS article w/ @lauragwilliams.bsky.social and Hinze Hogendoorn, just accepted! We respond to a thought-provoking article by @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, and argue that it's premature to conclude that conscious perception is delayed by 350-450ms: bit.ly/4nYNTlb

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 19d

become my colleague at penn bioengineering: apply.interfolio.com/173716

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Kyle Mahowald (COLM 2025) @kmahowald.bsky.social · 23d

📣@futrell.bsky.social and I have a BBS target article with an optimistic take on LLMs + linguistics. Commentary proposals (just need a few hundred words) are OPEN until Oct 8. If we are too optimistic for you (or not optimistic enough!) or you have anything to say: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models

www.cambridge.org

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Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social · Sep 8

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · Sep 6

Delighted to be working with @norabeier.bsky.social! Bringing together information theory and prosodic processing in new and interesting ways 🧠

Nora Beier @norabeier.bsky.social · Sep 5

Very excited to share that I am starting a postdoc position with the amazing @lauragwilliams.bsky.social at Stanford University!

We will be measuring neural tracking of prosody and linguistic information load in intracranial EEG. Can’t wait to explore this really cool dataset! 🧠

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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · Sep 3

📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year!

Links below:

Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903
Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989
Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · Sep 4

Applications open for fully funded 4-yr positions in the unique interdisciplinary program of the @maxplanck.de School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for science at the forefront of fundamental & applied research, mentored by a network of world renowned researchers.🧪
cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en

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assafbreska.bsky.social @assafbreska.bsky.social · Aug 20

We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social

M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9

@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social

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PhD and Postdoc Positions (m/f/d) in Human Cognitive Neuroscience of Dynamic Cognition – M/EEG, brain stimulation

Job Offer from August 11, 2025

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Nicola Molinaro @nicolaml.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢 PhD opening @bcbl_ (San Sebastián, Spain)
Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI.
📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025
👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3

PhD CANDIDATE POSITION – ERC ADVANCED GRANT PROJECT - CORTICAL RHYTHMS (Second Language Learning)

at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu

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Erin Grant @eringrant.me · Aug 19

I’m recruiting committee members for the Technical Program Committee at #CCN2026.

Please apply if you want to help make submission, review & selection of contributed work (Extended Abstracts & Proceedings) more useful for everyone! 🌐

Helps to have: programming/communications/editorial experience.

Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Aug 15

Fill out the form here to be involved in #CCN2026
tinyurl.com/ccn26committee

And definitely fill out the #CCN2025 feedback form!
tinyurl.com/ccn25partici...

CCN 2025 Participant Survey

❗ This is the general CCN post-conference survey. For the application form for positions on the committees at CCN 2026, please see the CCN 2026 Committee Application. Thank you for participating in C...

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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · Aug 17

That’s a wrap, folks!! I really enjoyed serving as the program chair of #CCN2025. Wonderful seeing it all come together, and get to engage with many inspiring scientific contributions. Thank you to everyone who made it possible!

Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · Aug 17

#CCN2025 is over. Over 5 days there were 6 fantastic keynotes, 550 posters, 3 community events, 3 keynote & tutorials, 3 generative adversarial collaborations, 8 Satellite events, 1 community lunch meeting, 1 cross-conference hackathon, 1 competition, coffee all day, stroopwafels on day 1,

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Aug 15

The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!

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Norman Lab @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social · Aug 13

Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

puwebp.princeton.edu

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Anne Urai 🟥 @anne-urai.bsky.social · Aug 14

@davidpoeppel.bsky.social points out the elephant in the conference: whichever direction of the planet we look, things are bad.

Einstein, chomsky and arendt point out to us that silence is not neutral

👏 #CCN2025

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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · Aug 10

looking forward to seeing everyone at #CCN2025! here's a snapshot of the work from my lab that we'll be presenting on speech neuroscience 🧠 ✨

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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · Aug 8

kettles are SO fast.

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · Aug 7

These job ads have now been posted! 🎉

Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020

Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054

Please spread the word!

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Liberty Hamilton @libertysays.bsky.social · Aug 4

Excited to announce that my lab has moved to UC Berkeley Dept of Neuroscience and Dept of Statistics! I will be continuing to collaborate with colleagues and students in TX at UT Austin and Baylor College of Medicine, and will start new collabs in the Bay. Will be taking new grad students this fall!

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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · Aug 4

looking forward to speaking at #NeurIPS2025 !

Data on the Brain & Mind @NeurIPS2025 @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨 Excited to announce our #NeurIPS2025 Workshop: Data on the Brain & Mind

📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks

🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social

🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io

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Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas @pinheirochagas.bsky.social · Jul 30

🧠🤖 We're hiring! The @UCSF NeuroAI Lab @UCSFmac seeks a Data Scientist to join our interdisciplinary team developing AI Voice Agents for neurology healthcare.

Details here:
neuroailab.ucsf.edu/careers/rese...

Research Data Analyst - AI Voice Agents in Neurodegenerative Disease Care

neuroailab.ucsf.edu

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · Jul 25

📣 Heads-up that our amazing dept (Berkeley Psych) is anticipating hiring *two* TT Asst Profs this Fall, under the themes of (1) Social & Personality Psychology, and (2) Biological Basis of Behavior.

Official job ads coming soon...

Send qs for (1) to Iris Mauss/Serena Chen, (2) to Linda Wilbrecht

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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · Jul 18

📣 We are hiring! 📣

#BCBL has new PhD positions available for you!

🔸 1 PhD – #Neurolinguistics and #Aphasia Group
🔸 1 PhD – #PerceptualInference Group
🔸 1 PhD – #BrainRhythms and #Cognition Group

The application deadline is soon!

+info 👇

www.bcbl.eu/es/unete-a-n...

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Dr Anna Leshinskaya @annaleshinskaya.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thrilled to announce our symposium, Cognitively Inspired Interpretability inn Large Neural Networks, at #CogSci2025 featuring @taylorwwebb.bsky.social, Ellie Pavlick, Jiahai Feng, Gustaw Opielka, ‪‪@claires012345.bsky.social‬, and Idan Blank!

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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · Jul 1

thank you!

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